Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earliest surviving copy of a book printed in the United States, the "Bay Psalm Book," published at Cambridge in 1640 by Stephen Daye with type which belonged to Harvard College, is included in the Widener collection and will be on exhibit...
...that end, all stops are out on the appeasement pipe-organ, and Chief Organist Stephen T. Early has orders to stomp on the bass. Time was when Virginia's old fireball, Carter Glass, would as soon enter the White House as a poolroom; likewise, Utah's William H. (I'm Against It) King, and many another. Now these conservatives are smiled on, their counsel taken, their birthdays and patronage remembered...
...regime and of its victims . . . "Christmas Holiday" is a worthy addition to the list of books which have made W. Somerset Maugham one of the most distinguished modern novelists in English . . . Augusta Tucker's "Miss Susie Slagle's" recounts the story of a student's boarding house in Baltimore . . . Stephen Vincent Benet's "Tales Before Midnight" again attest to his ability as a writer of the fantastic and disturbing short story. More intriguing stories in the manner of "Thirteen O'Clock...
...years. You can give it to reactionary Anglophile classicists, if you know any. . . . Mark Van Doren's "Collected Poems, 1922-1938" give a good picture of a sensitive and rather mystical mind. Mr. Van Doren's "Shakespeare" cannot be too highly recommended. An entirely fresh and illuminating critical appraisal. . . . Stephen Spender and J. L. Gilli have translated some poems of the young Spanish poet. F. Gareia Lorea, who was killed early in the Spanish war. This is not, unfortunately, the first example of a considerable talent to meet an unfitting and untimely death. . . . Another translation, this time of Rainer Maria...
This series of talks will be followed with another on "Propaganda and American Democracy" by Edward Bernays, William Stoddard '07, Robert B. Choate '19, Lloyd Free, Heywood Broun, Stephen E. Fitzgerald, Nieman Fellow, Max Lerner, William Yogel, Nieman Fellow, and Professor Rupert Emerson will close the afternoon...